Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IN0002925

COVANCE LABORATORIES INC, Greenfield, IN: NPDES IN0002925 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
0Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

COVANCE LABORATORIES INC, held by COVANCE LABORATORIES, holds NPDES permit IN0002925, which discharges to Sugar Cr Via Leary Ditch. EPA’s file records it issued November 2, 2006 and expiring November 30, 2011. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (October 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	COVANCE LABORATORIES INC
Permittee as filed	COVANCE LABORATORIES
NPDES ID	IN0002925
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	November 2, 2006
Expiration date	November 30, 2011
Issuing agency	IDEM
Address	Greenfield, IN 46140
Receiving water	SUGAR CR VIA LEARY DITCH
Subwatershed	Wilson Ditch-Little Sugar Creek (HUC 051202040404)
SIC	2833 – Medicinals And Botanicals
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler INR000125047; ICIS-AIR source IN0000001805900001

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

10Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
9With a violation of any kind
5With an effluent exceedance

An effluent exceedance is a discharge monitoring report value over the permit’s numeric limit (EPA’s violation code E90). A violation of any kind also counts a report not filed. Each row is EPA’s own count for that pollutant.

Pollutant or measure	Limits	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	4	27	23	July 31, 2013	99,999% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	4	21	13	December 31, 2014	90% over the limit
E. coli, colony forming units [CFU]	2	12	10	July 31, 2014	836% over the limit
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	8	7	7	November 30, 2013	182% over the limit
Oxidants, total residual	0	5	5	October 31, 2014	333% over the limit
Flow rate	2	2	0
pH	2	2	0
Coliform, fecal general	0	2	0
Flow, total	1	1	0
Copper, total recoverable	2	0	0

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES limits and effluent violations files (ECHO download); up to 60 rows shown, most exceedances first.

Inspections, violations and enforcement

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES IN0002925.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES IN0002925.

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES IN0002925.

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES violation, inspection and enforcement files (ECHO download); up to 50 rows of each shown, newest first.

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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES IN0002925 held by COVANCE LABORATORIES INC in Greenfield, IN, which discharges to Sugar Cr Via Leary Ditch and carries an administratively continued status. The figures listed are a Minor Discharger class, 8 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 5 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.